May 4, 2012 - Cloud computing adoption continues to gain
momentum as companies aim to become more agile and efficient,
and strive to manage the growth in users, devices and data
traffic. In fact, by 2015, Intel Corporation expects that
more than 3 billion connected users and
15 billion connected devices will be driving more than 1,500
exabytes of cloud traffic. Meanwhile, IDC estimates that
about 20 percent of all digital data - or 1,400 exabytes -
will be stored or processed in the cloud.
However, even as cloud adoption increases to keep up with
this growth, security remains a top concern as businesses
determine how to best protect sensitive data while also
meeting a growing range of compliance requirements.
Today, Intel and McAfee provided insight into the security
challenges facing IT as they consider cloud computing
adoption, and discussed how they are helping businesses build
new lines of defense through joint innovation and currently
available solutions. The companies also outlined the areas
that will have to be addressed in the future to make cloud
computing safer and more secure.

IT Pain Points

To provide a deeper understanding of the issues facing IT,
and how the industry can boost confidence in an
organization's adoption of cloud computing via better
security practices, Intel recently sponsored an in-depth
surveyof IT professionals. Results showed
that 61 percent of IT professionals are concerned about the
loss of visibility in private clouds, 55 percent are
concerned about lack of data protection in public clouds and
57 percent will not put data that require meeting specific
compliance requirements into cloud datacenters. Respondents
indicated that addressing these issues would enhance their
confidence around security and accelerate the adoption of
cloud computing in their companies.

The Solution: Intel and McAfee Joint Innovation

Together, Intel and McAfee are taking a holistic approach to
address cloud security challenges and establish confidence in
the use of private, public and hybrid clouds. The shared
mission of Intel and McAfee is to enable worry-free cloud
computing that is as secure as, or even more secure than,
traditional, best-in-class enterprise IT security. Both
companies are focused on

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four areas to deliver better security for cloud environments
while also enabling a broad range of open, interoperable
security solutions via industry collaboration. These include
securing cloud data centers, securing the network
connections, securing the devices that connect to cloud
services and accelerating the development of unified
standards for cloud security.

Securing Cloud Datacenters

Challenge: Today, IT managers have a high degree of
control over their traditional enterprise data centers, which
are bolstered by mature security tools and processes to
monitor systems and perform necessary auditing to meet
compliance requirements. With cloud infrastructure, IT
equipment is typically virtualized and shared across multiple
lines of business or even multiple organizations, resulting
in reduced control of and visibility into the infrastructure
security capabilities compared to traditional enterprise IT.
These challenges are further amplified when using off-premise
public cloud infrastructure which is managed by third
parties. In addition, performing audits across private and
public cloud data centers is complex, making it difficult to
meet specific compliance requirements, thus lowering
confidence in security.

Challenge: Two major concerns that companies have when
considering cloud computing are the possibility of data loss
and the ability to restrict access to information. Users with
multiple or weak passwords are a potential security hazard,
and the risks and costs associated with multiple passwords
are particularly relevant for any large organization
leveraging cloud-based applications. Meanwhile, email and Web
traffic flowing between remote offices and mobile devices
used by employees can be a significant source of data
leakage.

Solution: The
McAfee® Cloud Security Platformimproves
security by protecting data, email, Web traffic and
identities which are being transferred between devices and
data centers.
With the McAfee Cloud Security Platform, IT departments can
restrict information access by extending and applying access
and security policies into the cloud. The McAfee Cloud
Security
Platform takes advantage of the unique
McAfee Global Threat Intelligence (McAfee GTI)technology to provide real-time protection
against known and emerging threats. With visibility across
all key threat vectors - file, Web, email and network - and a
view into the latest vulnerabilities across the IT industry,
McAfee correlates real-world data collected from millions of
sensors around the globe to deliver the comprehensive
protection for cloud connections.
In the future, the McAfee Cloud Security Platform will evolve
to better protect cloud infrastructure via integrity
assessments, provide asset control and protection, and enable
broader auditing and network security capabilities.

Securing the Devices

Challenge: The explosive growth of devices, combined
with trends such as "BYOD - Bring Your Own Device," is
creating new challenges for cloud security. These include
complex identity management in which employees are managing,
on average, 12 user name/password combinations, new forms of
malware and a growing range of online attacks requiring new
and improved levels of security for devices accessing cloud
services.

Solution: To reduce these risks, Intel and McAfee are
improving security of devices, such as desktops and
notebooks, by protecting data and restricting access to data
and applications.

McAfe
e® De ep De fende r , a joint solution developed by
McAfee and Intel, represents the next generation of
hardware-enhanced endpoint security. Enabled by McA
fee® DeepS AFE technology, McAfee Deep Defender provides
hardware-enhanced security that uses
Intel®
Virtuali z ati on Technology ( Intel® VT)built into Intel® Core® i3, i5 and i7 processors
to detect and delete, in real-time, low-level threats that
are difficult to detect with traditional operating system
(OS)-based security techniques. To further enhance identity
management across clouds,
McAfe e® Cl oud Id enti t y Mana ger , which is part of
the McAfee Cloud Security Platform, provides on-premise,
comprehensive software-based access control for cloud
applications using enterprise identities, or Intel Cloud SSO(single-sign on) provides "identity as a
service" solution in the cloud. Intel® Identity Protection
Technology provides additional hardware-enhanced security
technology that is difficult to tamper with and goes beyond
user name and passwords to provide a second factor of
authentication.
Future developments will focus on advancements in data and
identity protection for devices accessing cloud services.

Intel and McAfee are engaged with several industry standards
bodies, including the Cloud Security Alliance and Open Data
Center Alliance, to accelerate more consistent cloud security
standards. In addition, both companies are working with a
broad range of systems and software providers to enable open,
interoperable solutions for cloud security so that IT can
more easily deploy solutions to strengthen cloud security.
Through the Intel Cloud Builders program, more than 50
partners are collaborating with Intel and more than 130
hardware and software partners are delivering security
solutions as part of the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance.

Now and Moving Forward

Intel and McAfee have a shared, multi-year mission to enable
highly secure cloud computing over time to ensure that for
any given workload running on any connected infrastructure,
IT departments can know that: